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Constructivist Language Teacher Education: An Example from Turkey

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International Perspectives on English Language Teacher Education

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There has been much discussion in recent years, in both general education and language teacher education, about the need to reconceptualize teacher education in line with contemporary constructivist and cognitivist thinking about how teachers learn how to teach, and what skills and knowledge they need to become effective teachers. It is becoming increasingly common for language teacher education programmes around the world to follow a “reflective,” “inquiry-based” approach to teacher learning. Nevertheless, many such programmes, both pre-service and in-service, have so far been unable to satisfactorily rectify the tensions between theory and practice, as well as between what is taught on the programme and the realities which many practising teachers face in their daily teaching.

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Phipps, S. (2015). Constructivist Language Teacher Education: An Example from Turkey. In: Farrell, T.S.C. (eds) International Perspectives on English Language Teacher Education. International Perspectives on English Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440068_2

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